50 Years Today Since The Infamous Rivers Of Blood Speech

[Bobbisox1]

Made by Enoch Powell ,very controversial for its time but a lot of it is happening with no controlled immigration nor any government in power or opposition ,willing to tackle it ,it’s seen as a poison chalice

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/enoch-powell-s-rivers-of-blood-speech-when-did-the-politician-make-the-controversial-address-and-what-about-it-was-so-inflammatory-a3818901.html

[SparklyKid]

Just look at soaps and TV adverts. Biased representation.

[andy-hughes]

Sparkly - // Just look at soaps and TV adverts. Biased representation. //

I don't actually watch soaps, or adverts, but if by 'biased', you mean the addition of a number of ethnic individuals to those scenarios, I would suggest it is more of an effort to present an accurate portrayal of multi-cultural Britain.

From my occasional glimpses of both platforms, ethnic minorities are still very much just that - minorities - hardly 'biased'.

[theshedman]

Right or wrong we should have had and still have controlled immigration as they do in many countries. I'm not saying what the Aussies did was right but when I lived there in the sixties they wouldn't even allow coloured or black people in. Then they started allowing coloured doctors and the like to enter but even to this day they limit immigration to the people they want.

[Bobbisox1]

We are no longer a ‘ Christian country’ now Andy, Muslim is the main culture now

[Zacs-Master]

Yes but that’s the point, Andy, BAME people are on the vast majority of TV adverts, which is unrepresentative of the UK demographic.

[Atheist]

Sparkly at 13:42
"Enoch was right, he could see the day when the black man had the upper hand."
Then you justify that claim by referring to people in adverts and soaps. In what way do they have the upper hand?

[theshedman]

andy, there was a program on last week as a new series Riches and it continued this week and almost the entire cast are black and in the first episode there were a number of lines in it which if it had have been a white cast wouldn't have been shown as it would be classed as being racist.

[Zacs-Master]

‘We are no longer a ‘ Christian country’ now Andy, Muslim is the main culture now’ that’s completely untrue, Bobbie. This is from the 2021 census (I can’t find anything more recent):
‘Across England and Wales, 46% of people identified as being Christian, 37% said they had no religion, 6% identified as Muslim, and 2% identified as Hindu. Around 2% identified as being Buddhist, Sikh, Jewish or of another religion’
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/constituency-data-religion/#:~:text=Across%20England%20and%20Wales%2C%2046,constituencies%20in%20England%20and%20Wales.

[Bobbisox1]

Perhaps should of been Christianity is no longer the majority religion here ( sorry Zac)

[Zacs-Master]

Erm….but it is.

[Bobbisox1]

Okay, you win but I did hear after the recent census, it wasn’t :0)

[Atheist]

Bobbisox. Have you got anything to back up your opinion that Islam is the main culture in the UK?

[Atheist]

Bobbi, sorry; cross post.

[-SharonA-]

The point is do you think England was right or wrong to invite West Indians to help get the county back on it's feet???
Clearly Enoch didn't think so, hence his speech.

[Zacs-Master]

You should always challenge what you hear, Bobbie ;-)

[Bobbisox1]

I’ve said on here Thank God for the Windrush generation Sharon, they DID help Britain to get back on her feet after the war

[Bobbisox1]

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You should always challenge what you hear, Bobbie ; ///
It was one of the News items so I wasn’t able to Zac :0)

[Zacs-Master]

Of course you can. Just Google whatever the statement is. That’s what I did and more or less instantly found the Census info.

[Bobbisox1]

I’m not as clever as those of you that use the News section ( with the exception of certain users, then, I am )

[bazwillrun]

"I would suggest it is more of an effort to present an accurate portrayal of multi-cultural Britain."

its anything but...they are trying to portray the average family as a black with a white woman...that is not the norm...the numbers of blacks in ads etc does not align with the population numbers...but the ASA has told ad companies , films, etc who they must have, how many numbers what positions in the plot etc, to hold positions of powere, not shown in a bad light i could go on but i cant be ***.

do yourself a favour take your blinkers off and watch some of Simon Webbs videos on YT "History Debunked" and see the lies being used by MSM, to push blacks and make them seem as if they got the world to where it is...
Mary Seacole, im sure you like others have swallowed all the lies spread as truths about her and what she did...all the lies re black history and black inventors who are being credited with inventions they had zero to do with...the list of lies to portray blacks in a good light goes on and on...look at some of the true stats on black crime etc ...Webb is accused of being a racist because he tells the truth and always gives links & references etc.....YouTube have not taken him down because even they realise he is telling truths that anybody if they wanted could verify for themselves...